Tom’s Restaurant on the corner of Broadway and West 112th Street in Manhattan is super famous for two reasons. It’s the fictional site of the diner where the “Seinfeld” characters would gather, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty) With its hypnotic fourstroke melody, “Tom’s Diner” is little more than an idea for a song. It's a composite of events ...

Suzanne Vega recalls sitting backstage at “The Arsenio Hall Show” in 1990 when her manager told her, “I need to play this thing for you.” The “thing” was an unauthorized remix of her a cappella song ...

The "Mother of the MP3" has penned a lengthy essay for NY Times' songwriting blog about her other hit wonder. Vega shares the inspiration for her a cappella tribute to Seinfeld's future hangout and ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — "I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. I am waiting at the counter for the man to pour the coffee and he fills it only halfway ..." Suzanne Vega penned the lyrics ...

In the early ’90s, Karlheinz Brandenburg was searching for a song with optimal humanity. As the creator of the MP3, his ideal test subject needed to be warm enough to challenge his highly refined ...

Despite growing up in New York City, singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega has a strong connection to Western Massachusetts. Over the years, she's played at Mass MoCA, at Barrington Stage Company, as part of ...

If you’re listening to music right now, you can probably hear the vocalist’s slight pitch-shifts, or hiss of a drummer’s hi-hats, or the padded thump of a synth bed. But do you ever think about what ...

Suzanne Vega performs on opening night at Café Carlyle. David Andrako Suzanne Vega is a real New York artist through and through: The singer-songwriter grew up in East Harlem and the Upper West Side, ...